The Madhya Pradesh anti-terrorism squad (ATS), which has been involved in grilling the Indian Mujahideen-Simi activists arrested earlier June, have succeeded in recovering from them 6.20 kg of gold looted from the Manappuram gold loan finance company’s office in the state capital in August 2010.

DMK MP Kanimozhi and Kalaignar TV MD Sharad Kumar on Friday became the first accused in the 2G spectrum case to approach the Supreme Court for bail even as the top court is yet to give its final verdict on the monitoring of the multi-million rupees scam.

After the verdict was pronounced, Tahawwur Rana’s attorney Patrick Blegan said he would file post-trial motions that there was not enough evidence to convict him and that there was an error in the trial.

While the perceptions of Maoist threat during the panchayat elections in Bihar in April and May were real, actual impact of the rebels’ threats on the entire election process seems to have been far overblown, especially in the event of claims about candidates withdrawing their nominations under threats from the Maoists.

The government on Friday expressed disappointment at Pakistani-Canadian Tahawwur Rana’s acquittal by a US court on charges of plotting the Mumbai carnage.

Life across the Jammu and Kashmir summer capital was affected on Saturday following a shutdown called by hardline separatist leader Syed Ali Geelani, whom the authorities placed under house arrest to maintain law and order.

Pakistan has not been playing fair with India, external affairs minister S.M. Krishna said Friday and agreed that Islamabad had blocked the trial of terror suspect Tahawwur Rana, who was cleared by a US jury of charges that he helped with the 2008 Mumbai attack. “Yes, of course it did. Pakistan has not been playing fair with us. And we would

Amid differences between Anna Hazare’s team and government on the Lokpal Bill, minister of state in the PMO V. Narayanasamy says the post of Prime Minister should not come under the purview of the proposed Bill as the dignity of the high office would be affected.

India abstained in Thursday’s vote in the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), which decided to report Syria to the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) over its alleged covert nuclear programme.

RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat on Saturday appealed to yoga guru Ramdev to end his fast against black money corruption due to his falling health, maintaining that the country needs his “guidance in the movement for national regeneration.”